BREAKING: 16-year-old in Police Custody in Connection With Latest Homicide

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16-year-old in Police Custody in Connection With Latest Homicide

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A 16-year-old male of Hatton is currently in police custody, being questioned in connection with the country’s latest homicide.

At approximately 9:10 p.m. on Tuesday, July 29, police and emergency personnel responded to a wounding incident at Grays Farm, in which 17-year-old Vonde Bowers of Liberta Village was reportedly injured during a physical altercation.

He was transported to the Sir Lester Bird Medical Center with multiple stab wounds to his body and was subsequently pronounced dead at 9:36 p.m.

A suspect was arrested shortly after the incident and is currently in police custody, assisting with ongoing investigations.

The Police administration expresses heartfelt condolences to the family and friends of Vonde Bowers, as they mourn his tragic death.

The Administration is further appealing to the youths of this country to desist from this deviant type of behaviour and to seek more peaceful ways of resolving their differences without violence.

The Antigua and Barbuda police continue to investigate this matter and are urging anyone with information that may assist in the investigation to contact the Criminal Investigations Department at 462-3913 or call Crimestoppers at 800-TIPS (8477).

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18 COMMENTS

  1. Nothing can be done to ease the grief and suffering this individual has caused because of his behavior. A message can be sent out to others by making a final example of this situation. Send the young man to the boys training school for the remainder of his natural born life and let him make PSA every 6 months to encourage other NEVER TO MAKE THIS MISTAKE.

  2. There should be a more severe form of punishment when found guilty in order to deter people from committing such crimes. Young people are dying and being sentenced for crimes to often. God help us.

  3. Oh wow. Two families facing pain. One forever one for maybe just three years or maybe just place in jail to wait like Cameron or whatever the young man name is. The one who killed marie

  4. This is the kind of nonsense I was afraid would happen when these teens are given lenient sentences for committing serious crimes. This has to stop now or Antigua will not be a place anyone with any sense would want to be.

  5. Has the 16 year old actually been arrested? The body of the story makes no allusion to the headline. It states only that the suspect is in police custody, not that he has been arrested and charged.

  6. 3 years in prison then he’s back on the street……’sad thing, now folks do you realize how ignorant some people here behave especially in traffic… some of this ignorance starts at home … let’s be the change we won’t to see in the world and stop blaming only the children….

  7. The suspect is arrested and is in police custody for questioning in connection with the murder. That’s the first step. The police will conduct their investigation and if there is sufficient evidence to substantiate that a case has established, then he will be charge for murder.

  8. This will continue to happen when you have a government who doesn’t take the law abiding citizenry seriously.

    When you set a president in the case of a 16 yr old getting only 3 yrs in prison for armed robbery and murder, don’t you think the other youths are listening and taking notes?

    This gov is to blame for this mayhem that’s happening in Antigua.
    They were warned over and over of what was to come,by me and a few others, but they Ignored it and continue to go about their business as normal, no care in the world about gun violence and crimes rising like while fire.

    So here you have it folks, a soon to be Anarchists state “Antigua”.

    Hard to believe right..well now let’s see what will be done here. Another case study for this government, which they will fail, because quite frankly, they have no clue about combatting crime, none.

    You can only fake it for so long GB and Cutie, Sir Knighted AG.. 😂.. what a joke.

  9. When this case eventually gets to court, it’ll be interesting to see how our judiciary deals with this 16-year-old youth.

    Hopefully, they would have learned from the recent case where they implemented a ridiculously low lenient 3 year custodial sentence.

    I’m hoping that the Attorney General Steadroy ‘Whey he dey’ Benjamin will have acknowledged the last furore, and be the overseer the ABLP appointed him to be.

  10. Cuss pon de Nation and all o we responsible fu um de majority gave the green light now R U a scramble fu solution time soon come fu correct de mistake

  11. Wow. Its bc you all give that one that kill the Serian 3 years. So they think they can kill MURDER n get away. N those that Rape the elder women…its so amazing you all don’t study human physiology. Wen you keep getting away with things more ppl joined the gang to see how far they can go…so revisited the lad that kill the serian man. Those ppl for Rape. N other crimes and violent act.that get away with little n no punishment. .. Do you know those men that Rape children and anyone else sit in jail n plan to come out and rape again. ..50 or life SENTANCE for Rape.n murder life sentence without PAROLE..see IF Antigua and Barbuda WON’T change.AND HAVE LESS CRIMES..STOP MAKING 1735.A HOTEL.IT’S A PLACE YOU MUST NEVER WANTED TO SEE..or go..you need to visit Poland prison… WICKED GENERATION.. GENERATION OF VIPERS..LET ME SEE THE VERDICT IN HIM KILLING THIS YOUNG MAN..BC HE REALLY WANT HIM TO DIE.SO MANY STABS WOUNDS .

  12. And here is the problem that these fools didn’t realize that they were throwing right in the face of the public.

    The 16 yr old that got only 3 yrs, that’s case law, so that means this new case/lawyer will only point to that case and sentence for this 16 yr old, and he will only get 3 yrs as well. That’s the problem with setting that president in that case..every case would have to follow the same route, otherwise if anyone in the same situation and age get more jail time or punishment, it will get overturned on appeal, because it would be considered a double standard and discriminatory.

    That’s the problem with case laws, they are set in stone until you repeal the laws, which can take years..by that time, every other juvenile murderer will only be punished by the standard in that first case.

    That’s the problem here.

    Big joke in Antigua.

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